diff --git a/mixnode/Cargo.toml b/mixnode/Cargo.toml
index 25a6a8d5a7..4979051b72 100644
--- a/mixnode/Cargo.toml
+++ b/mixnode/Cargo.toml
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ serde_json = { workspace = true }
 sysinfo = "0.27.7"
 tokio = { workspace = true, features = ["rt-multi-thread", "net", "signal"] }
 tokio-util = { workspace = true, features = ["codec"] }
+console-subscriber = { version = "0.2", optional = true }
 toml = "0.5.8"
 url = { workspace = true, features = ["serde"] }
 cfg-if = "1.0.0"
@@ -83,6 +84,9 @@ cpucycles = [
     "nym-bin-common/tracing",
 ]
 
+# build with RUSTFLAGS="--cfg tokio_unstable"
+tokio-console = ["console-subscriber", "tokio/tracing"]
+
 [package.metadata.deb]
 name = "nym-mixnode"
 maintainer-scripts = "debian"
diff --git a/mixnode/src/main.rs b/mixnode/src/main.rs
index d6383477cc..b9b1db4255 100644
--- a/mixnode/src/main.rs
+++ b/mixnode/src/main.rs
@@ -53,6 +53,12 @@ fn test_function() {
 
 #[tokio::main]
 async fn main() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
+    cfg_if::cfg_if! {
+        if #[cfg(feature = "tokio-console")] {
+            console_subscriber::init();
+        }
+    }
+
     let args = Cli::parse();
     setup_env(args.config_env_file.as_ref());